An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

34.
םתוֹא ָ ליחִ ְנַי אוּהוְ ץרֶ א֫ ָ ה־ת ָ אֶ
He will cause them to inherit the land. 24
Deut 3:28
The double accusatives can refer to the object of the causation predicate
(person or thing) + the means or complement of the other verbal predicate.
35.
36.
ר ָבּ םהי ֶ ֵל ְכּ־תאֶ וּא ְל ַמְ יוַ They filled their bags | with grain.
Gen 42:25
׃םִימ ָ֫
ו ָ םחֶ ֶל֫ ם ֵל ְכּל ְ ַכאֲ וָ
I supplied them | with food and water.
ֶ ֫ ַ ִ ַ ָ ֶ֫
ְ ֶ
37. ׃םח ָל עיבּ ְשׂ א הינוֹיבא 1 Kgs 18:13
Her poor | I will satisfy with food.
38.
Ps 132:15
׃וּהר֫ ֵטְּ
ַעתּ ְ רדָ הָ וְ דוֹב ָכוְ You crowned him | with glory and honor.
ִ ִ ֶ ֫ ַ ֲ
39. ית ָע ְמ דּ ךְוָיּ רא Ps 8:6
I drench you | with my tears.
Isa 16:9
Verbs of clothing (or stripping) can govern a personal direct object +
complement object. 25
[Page דוִ דּ־ת ָ א ֶ לוּא ָשׁ שׁ ֵבּלַיּ ְ וַ
Saul clothed David | with his garments.
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וידָּ מַ
40.
41. ףסוֹי־ת ֵ א ֶ וּטי ֫
10.3 Particle תא
ִשׁ פַ ְ יּוַ וֹתּ ְנתָּ ֻכּ־תאֶ 1 Sam 17:38
They stripped Joseph | of his coat.
Gen 37:23
a The particle תא ֵ is one of the most difficult grammatical morphemes in Biblical
Hebrew. One set of difficulties is morphological: the particle תא/ ֵ ־ת אֵ
is
homonymous with תא/־ת ֵ ֶ
א, the preposition ‘wish,’ except with pronominal
24 Cf. nḥl Hophal in Job 7:3.
25 For other acts of dressing see Gen 41:42; Isa 22:21; Ps 132:16, 18; for both dressing
and stripping see Num 20:26, 28. The reflexive Hithpael of these verbs governs only
one object (e.g., ytpšṭ in 1 Sam 18:4).